Lászlό Erős papers

László Erős was born in 1913 in Kolozsvár, Hungary (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania). In December 1942, he was conscripted into forced labor battalion 110/13 and survived several labor details before escaping in March 1945. While stationed in Gyergyószentmiklós (now Gheorgheni, Romania) in early 1944, he met Blanka Herskó (1927-?) from Gyergyószentmiklós. Blanka was deported in May 1944 to the Szászrėgen ghetto, Auschwitz, Plaszów, Auschwitz again, Wiesau, and Langenbielau. She and László were married after the war. Her parents are presumed to have been murdered at Auschwitz, and his father is also presumed to have been murdered in a concentration camp.

Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

László Erős donated his papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994 and 1995. The accessions formerly cataloged as 1995.A.525 has been incorporated into this collection.